File system name space

[Doug Gwyn]

Submitted-by: gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)

In article <14101 at cs.utexas.edu> seanf at sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>>What happens if you do an ``ls -l'' on /dev/fd, ...
>You get something that looks like ...

That's the most common implementation.  However, /dev/fd could also be
implemented as a filesystem type of its own, and I'd actually prefer
that.  Then an "ls /dev/fd" would show just the in-use file descriptors.

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